I can read it on okay my Sony 650, in 4-quadrant view with zooming, but that's kind of a pain. Any way to convert such docs to single column, so that I can switch to a larger font (currently, that causes a mess jumbling the column contents)?

I can read it on okay my Sony 650, in 4-quadrant view with zooming, but that's kind of a pain. Any way to convert such docs to single column, so that I can switch to a larger font (currently, that causes a mess jumbling the column contents)?

Not with Calibre. A new pdf engine is in progress that will handle multiple columns.

2. now that the text is on the clipboard you can paste either directly into a new sigil document , or paste into a new word document + save as filtered HTML. ( NB an entire book will take a while to appear in sigil, just be patient )

3. save work from step 2, import add saved book file to calibre, convert to format of your choice. use calibre heuristic etc convert tools to tidy up presentation.

the key step is 1. which takes the 2 column narrative & reflows it as a single column. tried it on a couple of novels & it has worked fine. ( I also cropped off page headers with another pdf tool before step 1 )

Thanks, I saw that and it looks good. But I'm on a Mac and not yet running a virtual Windows or a Windows partition, which I try to avoid needing to do. I'm still thinking about a possible virtual Windows implementation but will probably wait awhile if I decide to go ahead. Meanwhile, your other info on your site looks good.

Thanks, I saw that and it looks good. But I'm on a Mac and not yet running a virtual Windows or a Windows partition, which I try to avoid needing to do. I'm still thinking about a possible virtual Windows implementation but will probably wait awhile if I decide to go ahead. Meanwhile, your other info on your site looks good.

Please try the latest version, just posted, which has an OSX download.